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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XX: A Good Wife. (2)
And again he subjoins the like: "And that the wife should sweetly look sad with her husband, Should aught evil befall him, And have in common a share of sorrow and joy."
The Masnavi
The Old Man who made no Lamentation at the Death of his Sons (1-10)
He turned to his wife and said, "O dame, The harvest of December is not as that of July; Though they be dead or though they be living, Are they not...
The Masnavi
The Arab and his Wife (1-10)
Men subdued by women's wiles. In this manner she pleaded with gentle coaxing, How could his firmness and endurance abide When even without tears she...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XIX (7)
If e'er that holy, evangelic sound, Which sayeth 'neque nubent,' thou hast heard, Well canst thou see why in this wise I speak. Now go; no longer will...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (1)
I CAN scarce write for Grief, but seeing it cannot be otherwise, therefore we will for a While wear the Garment of the Woman, but yet live in the...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXXI (3)
Never to thee presented art or nature Pleasure so great as the fair limbs wherein I was enclosed, which scattered are in earth. And if the highest...
The Masnavi
The Arab and his Wife (11-20)
Condescends to entreaties, how is it then? She who subdues us with her pride and severity, What plea is left us when she begins to plead? When she...
The Masnavi
The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (172-181)
If I weep, I cease to praise and magnify thee." He spoke thus, and then fell to weeping, So many "Ahs" and "Alases" proceeded from his heart, Talking...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto VIII (4)
I do not think her mother loves me more, Since she has laid aside her wimple white, Which she, unhappy, needs must wish again. Through her full...
Exegesis on the Soul
The Marriage (6)
Then gradually she recognized him and was again happy, weeping before him as she remembered the disgrace of her former widowhood. She adorned herself...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 44: How a soul shall dispose it on its own part, for to destroy all witting and feeling of its own being (2)
This is true sorrow; this is perfect sorrow; and well were him that might win to this sorrow. All men have matter of sorrow: but most specially he fee...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XV (1)
A will benign, in which reveals itself Ever the love that righteously inspires, As in the iniquitous, cupidity, Silence imposed upon that dulcet...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXIII (5)
O brother sweet, what wilt thou have me say? A future time is in my sight already, To which this hour will not be very old, When from the pulpit...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XV (4)
And if my reasoning appease thee not, Thou shalt see Beatrice; and she will fully Take from thee this and every other longing. Endeavour, then, that s...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 16: That by virtue of this work a sinner truly turned and called to contemplation cometh sooner to perfection than by any other work; and by it soonest may get of God forgiveness of sins (2)
Lo! here may men see what a privy pressing of love may purchase of our Lord, before all other works that man may think. And yet I grant well, that...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIII: The Elephant (328)
If a man find a prudent companion who walks with him, is wise, and lives soberly, he may walk with him, overcoming all dangers, happy, but...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (6.4.8)
If she should yield to him, he says: ' With power, with glory I give you glory! ' Thus they two become glorious.
Book of Enoch
Chapter CII (7)
Behold, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness, And what have they more than we? From henceforth we are equal.
Pyramid Texts
Texts Of Miscellaneous Contents, Utterances 628-658 (633)
1791. To say: Thou art she who weeps for him.
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (131)
Now here stands the beauteous bride: what shall I write of her now? was she not a Prince of God, as also the most beautiful, moreover, in God's love...
The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (151-160)
And his wailing and cries of' O God!' In this way by supplication and lamentation He prevails with me altogether." It is on account of their sweet voi...